So instead of writing my book review which is due tomorrow (calm down, I have plenty of time) I'm going to post to my journal.  It seems recently that my journal is my way of avoiding things ( Read more... )

Instead of posting a reply to Rain's post, I am extending it into my own post.  So ha ( Read more... )

Today was one of those days where I really wish that I could stop by the liquor store on the way home from work and buy some malt beverages and sit on the couch for a three or four, doing nothing but reading and thinking.  Stupid imaginary rules.  I'm responsible, I'm mature (as subjective as those things may be).  Why can't I buy booze?  I'm not ( Read more... )

I have finally found something to fill the gaping void left by the extinction of Global Nomad, the coffeehouse.  More than that, I've found something better.

I had heard that a new coffehouse was going to be opening downtown, but I didn't know when and I didn't know what their hours of operation were going to be.  Fortuitously, I found a card from ( Read more... )

Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday to me
Happy birthday . . .

And so was the refrain as I lay in bed staring at the ceiling this morning.

I would reflect on the sundries of life and all that, but on a snappy, blue-skied day like today I feel that anything that doesn't explode with the now to be inappropriate.  Thus, I will leave my reflections to ( Read more... )

So here is a breif update on some of the things that I have been occupied with over the past few weeks since I don't have time or really the desire to go through them specifically and with any details.

• School's over; I got straight A's.  It seems anti-climactic at this point really.
• I went with Lana (work buddy) to her daughter's house in Edmundson ( Read more... )

". . . From deep understanding, the flower of great eloquence blooms:
the Bodhisattva standing majestically
on the waves of birth and death, free from all afflictions.
Her compassion eliminates all sickness,
even that thought of as incurable.
Her light sweeps away all obstacles and dangers. . . .”

Word of the Day: consecrate (verb); to make or ( Read more... )

What I am Thankful for This Year ( Read more... )

I know it has been a million and a half years since I have updated and I really should note the stuff that has happened, but I don't really want to spend a million and a  half years on this post, so I will simply tell ya'll about Thanksgiving yesterday.

Dash had to work, so I woke up to an empty house on el dia de la accion dar gracias (which is ( Read more... )

Word of the Day: codpiece (noun); (in the 15th and 16th centuries) a flap or cover for the crotch in men's hose or tight-fitting breeches, usually matching the costume and often decorated

or . . . used in suits of armor

For example:  Henry VIII's Codpiece